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Building Your House On The Rock
Worship Service: Sermon only - September 10, 2017
What does it mean to build your house upon the rock versus the sand. This sermon helps us understand this by focusing on the spiritual meaning of "sand." | By Rev. Matthew L. Genzlinger | West Concord, MAConscience And Temptations
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - August 27, 2017
Adult Evening Service - Speaker - Candidate Judah E. Synnestvedt | By Rev. Judah E. Synnestvedt | Kempton, PAJonah, Part 2 - Miracle of Change
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 13, 2017
The Lord has the power to perform miracles, but miracles without inner faith do not help us. If we believe in the Word and the miracles performed there, we can develop an inner faith which the Lord can use to do the most important miracles, change our hearts and minds. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAFinding Hope
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 02, 2017
The sermon is about finding hope, the will to carry on, and the belief that it's worth carrying on because good things are going to happen in your life. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn CathedralYou Are Not Alone
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 02, 2017
Finding Hope when we feel alone. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn CathedralChristmas - Lord Fights for Us
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 04, 2016
The Lord came to fight for us and save us from our sins. He came in a body to fight our our nature to look to the world rather than the body. He can free us from our spiritual captivity by looking to him and asking for his help. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAIf I Make My Bed in Hell...
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 21, 2016
In what way is the Lord with us if we choose evil? Sometimes it seems to us that we can't change, what does He do about that? | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Sr. | Westville, RSAAm I Good Enough?
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 14, 2016
Sometimes it can feel like it's pretty easy to be a good person and at other times it can feel impossible. What's reality? How worried should we be? What is the Lord really asking of us? | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Westville, RSA"Come Quickly, Lord, to Help Me"
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 03, 2016
This message looks at the story of the demons who had been possessing two men being allowed to escape into a herd of pigs. It is a picture of the Lord driving hell out of a person's life and leaving them free of the evil things that had previously possessed them. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZHeroes - Doing What's Required
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 05, 2016
A common theme with people who perform heroic acts is that they say they were just doing their job. It is heroic in many circumstances to do what is required of us. We all have that calling to heroic obligation and spiritually we have to step into doing what's required by the Lord, especially when it is hard. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAThe Steps of Repentance 2 - Recognise and Acknowledge Sin
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 08, 2016
(By Coleman Glenn read by Malcolm Smith)The teachings of the New Church outline 4 steps of repentance. This Sunday we're digging into the 2nd step--a step that is easy to overlook but essential to real repentance: recognising and acknowledging our sin. Sin is a scary word but learning how to recognise and acknowledge it in ourselves in a healthy way is a key step in moving beyond it. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSASteps of Repentance 1-Examine Yourself
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 01, 2016
The first thing Jesus said when He began public preaching was, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matthew 4:17). But how do we repent? The teachings of the New Church outline 4 steps of repentance. Can you guess (or remember) what they are? And, more importantly, do you know how to use them to repent? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSAEaster - Dawn after the Night
Worship Service: Informal Family - March 27, 2016
Sunrise Service. The women come to serve the Lord and find the stone rolled away and the Lord risen. The dawning of the Lord in our lives comes after the night. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAPalm Sunday - Between the Celebrations
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 20, 2016
The work the Lord did between Palm Sunday and Easter is the work that these holiday's celebrate. It is the work that came from His love for us. It models the deepest love. And from that love and work He can fight for us and overcome in our struggles. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PASeeing Patterns by Eric Carswell
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 10, 2016
This Sunday we will be hearing a sermon by Eric Carswell called “Seeing Patterns.” It takes a funny and not very well-known story from the Old Testament and uses it to explore how we can come to see negative patterns in our lives, even when we don’t particularly want to. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSAChristmas - The Messier Side of Christmas
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 06, 2015
The Lord came to fight for us, to free us from bad ways of thinking and feeling. To accept His freedom, we have to stand against those thoughts and feelings that feel like part of and pierce our own soul. When we fight and die to our old self, the Lord can bring us into peace and good will. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAGood News - Sacrifice
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 13, 2015
The Lord sacrificed His life to bring us closer to the Divine. The details of His death demonstrates the ways people can separate truth from love, humanity from divinity. To follow the Lord and not deny, we have to take an affirmative attitude toward Scripture and ask “How is it true?” rather than “Is it true?” | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAGood News - Paradox
Worship Service: Informal Family - September 06, 2015
Spiritual life challenges us to face the opposition of higher and lower realities – our natural desires and our spiritual desires. We have a divided mind because we are a spirit in a body. Because of this division, there is also the truth of paradox – the reality of truths that seem contradictory but are both true. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PACoping with Overwhelming Feelings
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 12, 2015
At times feelings rise up that we don't feel able to overcome and we don't know how to proceed. In the story of Eglon and Ehud the Lord offers us a strategy. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Prodigal Son
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - July 05, 2015
The parable of the Prodigal Son tells the story of a young man leaving his father's house, wasting all that he had, returning to his father, and finding forgiveness. How are we like that prodigal son, and what does it mean for us to find our way back to our Father's house again and again? | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Westville, RSAConsidering Conscience
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 28, 2015
Finding relevance in the story of Balaam. Closing Prayer by Rev EH Carswell. | By Rev. Christopher A Barber | Bryn Athyn CathedralOne Sinner That Repents
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 24, 2015
The topic for this Sunday is the Lord's mercy. Is the Lord always merciful? Does that mean that it doesn't matter how we live our lives? | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Sr. | Westville, RSALet Not Your Heart Be Troubled
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 03, 2015
"Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me." (John 14:1) "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." (John 14:27) | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Riddle of the Eagles
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 26, 2015
"A great eagle with large wings and long pinions, full of feathers of various colors, came to Lebanon and took from the ceder the highest branch." (Ezekiel 17:3) Ezekiel's riddle calls our attention to the beauty and power of what is meant by the eagle in our lives, and to its role in helping us to thrive every day. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn CathedralHe Trod the Winepress Alone
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 03, 2015
3 lessons & Holy Supper address Readings: Isaiah 63:1-19; Mark 15:1-39; Apocalypse Revealed 829. Sermon: The Lord prepared Divine truth for us through combat in temptation, pictured by the way wine is prepared by treading on grapes. | By Rev. Kenneth J. Alden | Boynton Beach, FL